Search for crossword answers and clues

Answer for the clue "Distress rocket ", 5 letters:
flare

Alternative clues for the word flare

Word definitions for flare in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Flare is a science fiction novel by American writers Roger Zelazny and Thomas Thurston Thomas , published in 1992. Flare describes the world as it may be in 2081, and the effects a future inter-planetary civilization would suffer if a solar flare occurred ...

Usage examples of flare.

The nimble, twin-tailed single-seater vaulted skyward under his touch, afterburner flaring.

He waited a second, then two, and saw his round airburst somewhere near the flare.

There Akha stood, broad and horrible of brow, its large stone eyes unseeing yet all-seeing, lit from below by flares.

It said hello by secreting algesic enzymes, triggering a star flare in his chest that slapped him off his feet like a blow from a club.

The Cessna hung back, waiting for the amphib to flare out for its controlled bellyflop.

On board the deck of a junk passing close to seaward of the Andaman a blue flare started up.

Vergere watched all this happen--made it happen, Nom Anor realized--with a humorous expression on her face and a bright orange flare of her crest.

But his wrath flared hotly against his archenemy, the King of the Franks.

Things flare up in the mouth of the Tigris, not far from where Baghdad used to be: the native Lemurians attack the Atlantian colonists, killing two of their officers, supposedly because of some insult to their nation.

Even in the first flare of youth, even at the time when he was the meteoric, dazzling figure flaunting over all the baldpates of the universe the standard of the musical future, it was apparent that there were serious flaws in his spirit.

Like the horseman, Batu had dark eyes set wide over broad cheeks, a flat nose with flaring nostrils, and a powerful build.

Two torches flared on either side, held fast by iron brackets, and a third was held by a servant dressed in a bauta, waiting just inside the open gate.

She found an elegant black knit with subtle beadwork and a softly flaring skirt and slipped it on, then stepped into her high-heeled black pumps.

When he set a match to the booties, the alcohol flared, but the wood did not catch.

Her face was crimson, her nostrils uncontrollably flared and shrank, and the turbulent swelling of those beautiful bubbies showed unequivocally that this was perhaps the most sincere manifestation she had ever shown in the act of love, or so at least I could conjecture after what she had already disclosed concerning her frustrating marital experiences.